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Lamb is on medication for depression and the calls had been reducing recently, said Miss Roberts.

Since February, she has been receiving one-on-one support at a Nottingham centre and this is helping her to avoid making the calls.

Miss Roberts told the magistrates: "She is starting to use alternative measures to deal with the stresses she is under."

Lamb had also joined "support group chat on Facebook and talking about her problems." She also has a friend who confiscated her phone when she feared a call was about to be made to police, added Miss Roberts.

She will be released halfway through the jail term and will then be on probation for a year.